P i E P a C E 



©HE object and the mode of my journey have been 

 so fully explained in the preface to part "NortV 

 that I need not recount them here. It was my 

 original intention to have compressed the whole of 

 my notes into one book,, but on further consi- 

 deration it seemed that it would be for the interest 

 both of myself and my readers to make two parts^ 

 which could be purchased separately. '^ Highlands^^ 

 and ^^ Lowlands^^ were the natural divisions, but I 

 eventually decided to call them "NortV^ and 

 " South," and take the Frith of Forth as nearly as 

 possible for my line of demarcation. Without en- 

 tering at any length into arable matters (which Mr. 

 Stephens in his "Book of the Farm," and other 

 writers, have handled so ably), I have endeavoured, 

 as far as lay in my power, to make these two parts 

 a reflex of that Scottish country life which I enjoyed 

 so heartily for three successive summers. There may 

 be errors, but still there is not a page in either part 



